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Volume 7, "Finding the Shoshone"
State(s): Southwest Montana
From: Three Forks to Dillon
Roads: Hwy 2 - 55 - 41
Journal Sections: July 25 - Mid August
Content Highlights
· Three Forks Rivers named
· Beaverhead recognized as landmark
· Lewis search for Shoshone
· Need for horses desperate
· Confusion/ta ba bone
· More Sacagawea
· Guide
· Meet with Shoshone/Snake
· Coincidence of friend & brother in group they meet
· Colter/Potts later escapades in area
· Lemhi Pass/Camp Fortunate
· Continental Divide
· Headwaters of the Missouri
Volume 7 also is a power-packed section
of the voyage. Here we find the journey reaching the headwaters
of the Missouri, approaching exhaustion in the water travel and
desperation in the search for horses. Again the group must decide
on the proper water-course when reaching the Three Forks area
and again they succeed. We'll talk about Sacagawea's participation
in the successful choice of direction and acquisition of the horses,
and learn more about the Shoshone view of the expedition. Among
the issues we'll address is Lewis' misguided first attempts at
contact with the Shoshone nation. In this volume we'll look at
the triumphant moment when Lewis and the advance party reach the
Continental Divide and journal readings will describe the joyous
Hugh McNeal standing astride the headwaters of the Missouri River.
Here we'll cover some of the future escapades of the rank and
file members of the expedition, including John Colter and John
Potts, later explorers, mountain men and trappers.
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